27 October 2026
From 1 November, families in Haryana with a verified annual income above Rs 3 lakh may join the Chirayu-Ayushman Haryana Scheme. Those with income between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 6 lakh will pay Rs 4,000 a year, and those above Rs 6 lakh will pay Rs 5,000 a year. The cover stays at cashless treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh a year for a family at empanelled government and private hospitals across India. Until now the paid band covered families earning about Rs 1.8 lakh to Rs 3 lakh a year, who paid Rs 1,500 a year for the same cover. Eligibility is checked against the Parivar Pehchan Patra database. Dr Sumita Misra, Additional Chief Secretary for Health and Family Welfare, gave the contribution details. The scheme is Haryana's extension of the central Ayushman Bharat cover to families above the poorest group.
Contribution, Rs 3-6 lakh income:
Rs 4,000 per year
Contribution, above Rs 6 lakh:
Rs 5,000 per year
Annual cover:
Rs 5 lakh
In force from:
1 November
Why it matters for exams: Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY and its Rs 5 lakh family cover are repeat scheme questions.
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PPP Parivar Pehchan Patra — Haryana's family identity database, used to check eligibility for state benefits.
30 October 2026
Haryana honoured 132 athletes of the Asian Games and the Para Asian Games at a state-level ceremony at Bhiwani, giving cash awards of Rs 189.38 crore in all. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini released the Haryana Sports Calendar at the same ceremony. Haryana's athletes won 32 of India's medals at the Asian Games, 14 of them gold; its para-athletes won 31, including 9 gold. The state runs 2,000 sports nurseries and 25 residential sports academies, where athletes get a daily diet allowance of Rs 500. The state has given Group A, B and C posts to 260 outstanding sportspersons and has paid Rs 931 crore to 17,676 athletes. The Sports Department budget has grown from Rs 163 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 668.42 crore. Bhim Stadium at Bhiwani is to be upgraded at a cost of Rs 50 crore. Winners of the Khel Ratna, Dronacharya, Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Tenzing Norgay awards get a monthly honorarium of Rs 20,000, and Bhim Award recipients Rs 5,000.
Athletes honoured:
132
Cash awards:
Rs 189.38 crore
Sports nurseries:
2,000
Bhim Stadium upgrade:
Rs 50 crore
Why it matters for exams: The Bhim Award is Haryana's highest sports honour and the national sports awards are standard questions.
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Bhim Award Haryana's highest state sports award — Instituted by Haryana to honour its outstanding sportspersons, with a monthly honorarium.
30 October 2026
The Election Commission of India has given Haryana more time for the Special Intensive Revision of its electoral roll. Claims and objections in Haryana are now to be disposed of by 20 November, and the final roll is to be published on 30 November instead of 6 November. The same relaxation covers Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Nagaland and Delhi, with Delhi on a longer calendar ending 22 December. Haryana's own district figures show how much work is pending: Form 6 notices number 4,49,813, Form 7 notices 1,57,673 and Form 8 notices 3,78,094. Over 44 lakh voters were asked for documents after their entries did not match the earlier roll. Booth Level Agents have been appointed for 20,864 polling stations, the largest numbers by the BJP and the Congress. Officials say the extra time is meant to clear pending cases and to make the roll more accurate.
Final publication:
30 November
Disposal of claims and objections:
20 November
Polling stations with Booth Level Agents:
20,864
Why it matters for exams: Forms 6, 7 and 8 and the office of the Electoral Registration Officer are standard Polity questions on electoral rolls.
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SIR Special Intensive Revision — A door-to-door revision of the electoral roll ordered by the Election Commission of India.
ERO Electoral Registration Officer — The officer who decides additions, deletions and corrections in an assembly constituency's roll.
30 October 2026
Haryana now ranks its districts on how well they clear complaints filed on the CM Window portal, the state's single grievance window. On the ranking drawn up from data to 27 October, Nuh district scored 77 out of 100 and stood sixth in the state. The score is split across four heads: 20 marks for starting action on a grievance, 25 for uploading action reports, 25 for pending and overdue cases, and 30 for disposal. Nuh took 18, 21, 14 and 24 marks respectively. Since the portal began, the district has received 42,551 grievances, of which 39,134 are closed and 3,417 are pending. No grievance there has gone more than 30 days without action being started or a report filed. Dr Sumita Mishra, Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner for Revenue and Disaster Management, chaired the review and told districts to record the full subject of every complaint on the portal and to keep user profiles updated.
Nuh's score:
77 out of 100
Rank in Haryana:
sixth
Grievances received:
42,551
Why it matters for exams: CM Window is Haryana's statewide grievance redress portal and a named state initiative.
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CM Window Mukhyamantri Window — Haryana's online grievance portal, through which complaints reach departments and are tracked to disposal.
30 October 2026
Karnal district in Haryana has been told to keep a joint team of the mining police, the enforcement wing and the revenue department watching for illegal mining round the clock. The direction came at the monthly mining review chaired by Deputy Commissioner Dr Anand Kumar Sharma at the district secretariat. Every Sub Divisional Magistrate must inspect the mining areas in his jurisdiction and act against overloaded vehicles, and e-transit bills, called e-ravangi bills, must be checked carefully. The District Mining Officer reported that between 28 August and 30 October, 25 vehicles were seized for illegal mining and Rs 8,63,900 was collected in fines. For the year so far, 161 vehicles have been sealed, 52 first information reports registered, 32 challans presented in court and 20 cases are still in process. An e-transit bill is the electronic pass that must accompany a load of minor minerals, and checking it is how a state tells legally mined material from the rest.
Vehicles seized, 28 August to 30 October:
25
Fines collected:
Rs 8,63,900
Vehicles sealed this year:
161
Why it matters for exams: Minor minerals are regulated by state governments, and the e-transit pass is the state's control on their movement.
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Minor minerals a class under the mines law — Sand, gravel, ordinary clay and building stone, which state governments regulate.
28 October 2026
The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided not to take further steps on the parallel power distribution licence it had given to Eleven Power Private Limited for the Gurugram and Nuh revenue districts. The Commission had granted that licence for 25 years on 19 October, and the company accepted it on 21 October. On 26 October the state's Energy Department wrote to the Commission under Section 108(1) of the Electricity Act, 2003, directing that no parallel distribution licence be created, operationalised or effectuated anywhere in Haryana, with the Chief Minister's approval. The Commission held that Section 108(1) obliges it to follow written government directions on policy matters, and that under Section 108(2) the government's view on whether a question is one of public-interest policy is final. Since the directions cover the whole state, it said nothing was left for it to decide, and it refused the company's request for advance notice and a hearing. The licence has not been cancelled, but it cannot be put into effect while the directions stand. The company had proposed capital investment of Rs 4,717 crore over five years with supply from 2027-28, in a licence area of five divisions covering more than 8.3 lakh consumers. The state's own distribution company for the area, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, had opposed the licence on grounds that included cross-subsidy, stranded costs and duplicated infrastructure.
Licence term:
25 years
Proposed investment:
Rs 4,717 crore
Consumers in licence area:
over 8.3 lakh
Provision invoked:
Section 108, Electricity Act, 2003
Why it matters for exams: Section 108 of the Electricity Act, 2003 lets a state government direct its regulatory commission on policy, a live Polity and Economy point.
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HERC Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission — The state regulator that licenses distribution and fixes electricity tariffs in Haryana.
DHBVN Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam — The state-owned company that distributes electricity in southern Haryana, including Gurugram.
28 October 2026
Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini led a Haryana delegation to Gujarat for a two-day investment drive, with one-to-one investor meetings and a gathering of the Haryana diaspora at Surat on the first day and the Haryana Investment Roadshow at Gandhinagar on the second. The pitch is built on the Make in Haryana Industrial Policy-2026, which sets a target of about Rs 5 lakh crore in fresh investment and more than 10 lakh jobs by 2030-31. Industry and Commerce Minister Rao Narbir Singh went with the delegation, and the department's Commissioner and Secretary, Dr Amit Agrawal, set out the plan. At Gandhinagar the Chief Minister told investors about the state's sectoral policies, which cover electronics, data centres, information technology and artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, toys and sports equipment, and food processing. He said memoranda of understanding worth Rs 1.1 lakh crore had been signed on the day the industrial policy was launched in Gurugram. He also said the state had used 96 per cent of its incentive budget in 2023-24 and in 2024-25, against a six-year average of 83 per cent. Haryana plans a Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit in the first week of April 2027.
Investment target:
about Rs 5 lakh crore
Jobs target:
more than 10 lakh
Target year:
2030-31
Roadshow venue:
Gandhinagar
Why it matters for exams: The Make in Haryana Industrial Policy-2026 and its Rs 5 lakh crore investment target are a named state policy with a figure.
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MoU memorandum of understanding — A written statement of intent between parties, which may precede a binding contract.
22 October 2026
Power employees and engineers across Haryana went on a three-day strike from 22 October against the parallel distribution licence granted for Gurugram and Nuh. The call came from the Haryana Bijli Karamchari and Engineers Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha, which wanted the licence cancelled and the proposed privatisation of power distribution dropped. The Morcha argued that a second distributor in the state's highest-revenue districts would weaken Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, the government company that supplies the area. About 40,000 employees joined the strike, which affected an estimated 10 lakh consumers. It was called off on 23 October after the unions met Energy Minister Anil Vij and the Chief Minister. The minister said the government had taken the regulator's order to the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity and asked for a stay. The government and the unions were to meet again on 3 November. Haryana distributes power through two state companies, one for the south and one for the north.
Strike dates:
22 to 24 October, called off on 23 October
Employees who joined:
about 40,000
Consumers affected:
about 10 lakh
Why it matters for exams: The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity hears appeals against orders of electricity regulatory commissions.
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APTEL Appellate Tribunal for Electricity — The tribunal that hears appeals against orders of the central and state electricity regulatory commissions.
Background
Haryana's parallel power licence is in the news this week, so here is the framework behind it. In a parallel distribution arrangement, two licensed companies may supply electricity in the same geographical area, with the existing state utility continuing to operate, and a consumer may choose a supplier once the new distributor's network reaches that consumer. An applicant seeks such a licence from the state electricity regulatory commission under Sections 14 and 15 of the Electricity Act, 2003, and the same framework already runs in Mumbai. The commission is not free of the state government on policy: Section 108 of the Act requires it to be guided by written directions from the state on policy matters involving the public interest, and the government's own view on whether a question is a policy matter is final. An order of the commission can be challenged before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity. In Haryana the dispute matters because the districts in question made up 35.23 per cent of the southern distribution company's sales and 42.98 per cent of its revenue of Rs 9,493.75 crore in 2025-26. The company estimated that a shift of 2.5 per cent of its sales would cost it Rs 424.12 crore in 2027-28, and a shift of 20 per cent as much as Rs 1,898.75 crore. The Union Power Ministry's consultative committee discussed a national framework for parallel distribution earlier this year.
Licence provisions:
Sections 14 and 15, Electricity Act, 2003
Government direction provision:
Section 108
Share of the discom's revenue from those districts:
42.98 per cent
Why it matters for exams: Sections 14, 15 and 108 of the Electricity Act, 2003 and the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity are set exam facts on power sector regulation.
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Cross-subsidy a tariff practice — Charging one group of consumers above cost so another group can be charged below cost.
Stranded cost unrecovered investment — Money a utility has already spent on assets that it can no longer recover if consumers leave.